'BAM! I Got Hit By Bambi!': Deer Decks Canadian Rapper

Cary McCook, a Canadian rapper, had just stepped out of a friend’s pickup truck at a hotel when a deer came seemingly from nowhere and tackled him.

And because it happened on April Fool’s Day, he had a hard time getting people to believe him.

“The first thing I did was call my mom,” he told Canada’s Abbotsford News. “I was like mom, I got hit by a deer in front of my hotel room and then she kind of laughed and said ‘I’ve heard better than that.’”

“As you see I turn my back when I shut the door. When I start to make my way towards the entrance I hear three gallops to my left. I turned. Before I could process it was a deer and try to get out of the way ― because my left leg was going left, my right leg was going right, leaving me in the middle ― bam! I got hit by Bambi.”

He said he wasn’t badly injured, but it didn’t exactly feel good.

“It wasn’t pleasant. It was a big shocker,” he told Castanet. “I play hockey, I know some guys can hit, but not like a deer.”

He said the deer was being chased by a dog, and ran off after the collision.

McCook wrote late Monday that he’s enjoying his new viral fame:

“I haven’t experienced or seen anything like this in my 25 years in the wilderness,” he told Global News. “And for me to get out of the woods and into a urban area and for that to happen, not only shocked me but made me realize anything good can happen on any given moment.”